# Richie Rich is a fucking cocksucker **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 20, 2002, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richie-rich-is-a-fucking-cocksucker/128800 "2002-09-20T14:14:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AmbushBug](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ambushbug/32/4600_2.png) [@AmbushBug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmbushBug)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richie-rich-is-a-fucking-cocksucker/128800/21 "2002-09-20T19:10:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*Who’s richer, ya think, Richie Rich or or Scrooge McDuck? \*\* According to [Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/2002/09/13/400fictional_print.html) It’s Richie Rich at #2 with $24.7 billion, and Scrooge McDuck at #4 with $8.2 billion. Santa Claus is #1, with $infinity. AmbushBug ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richie-rich-is-a-fucking-cocksucker/128800/22 "2002-09-20T19:32:13Z")
There was the one time Richie and Reggie had a race around the world. They agree to a stipulation that neither one can spend any money. Reggie of course brings traveller’s checks. They bump into each other at various spots along the way around the world. Reggie always gets foiled in his efforts to bring Richie down. In the last part of the race, the leg to San Francisco, Reggie spots Richie with a Polynesian boy in a Singapore harbor. Richie tells Reggie, “I’m going to cross the Pacific in this outrigger.” Yeah. 5000 miles across treacherous tsunami-laden shark-infested ocean with a couple of backpacks of food, powered by sugar cane poles. Happens every day. Even though the two made the bet on the condition that neither one spends any money, Reggie cheats (like he did all along the way) and gets a seat on an ocean liner. The yellow-skinned slanty-eyed Chinese captain tells him “San Francisco is honorable first stop!” Next panel: Reggie exclaims “Hey! This is India! You said we were going to San Francisco!” The captain replies, “We go to Frisco the long way.” Or maybe that was actuarry _wrong_ way. ---
**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richie-rich-is-a-fucking-cocksucker/128800/23 "2002-09-20T19:34:55Z")
How is Daddy Warbucks #3? He used to lose his entire fortune about once every five years. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richie-rich-is-a-fucking-cocksucker/128800/24 "2002-09-20T19:44:12Z")
And I thought the McDuck fortune was estimated at “eight skyrillion dollars.” ---
**Author:** ![monterey86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@monterey86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monterey86)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richie-rich-is-a-fucking-cocksucker/128800/25 "2002-09-20T20:42:20Z")
Not many people know this, but in the 70’s Richie changed his name, moved to Redmond, WA and started a Software Company. His house still looks the same though and I think he still has that swimming pool with gold coins. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richie-rich-is-a-fucking-cocksucker/128800/26 "2002-09-20T20:57:30Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m certain Freckles makes sure he didn’t get any gold coins lodged in his ass crack while swimming in the money pool, because not returning them WOULDN’T BE RIGHT. Man, that happens in my pool every now and again. Those coins just get everywhere! In cracks you didn’t know you HAD! ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richie-rich-is-a-fucking-cocksucker/128800/27 "2002-09-20T21:43:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Weirddave \* > \*\*Is it just me, or does Casper look like the ghost of Richie Rich? > > [Judge](http://www.toonopedia.com/casper.htm) for [yourself](http://posters.barnesandnoble.com/search/product_large.asp?userid=6TW8ILM77G&EAN=9780587072799). \*\* Not just you, [Bart & Lisa noticed it too](http://www.snpp.com/episodes/7F21.html) [qoute] Bart: Well, you know what I think? I think Casper is the ghost of Richie Rich. [shows comics of Casper and Richie Rich] Lisa: Hey, they do look alike! [/qoute] 😛 ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richie-rich-is-a-fucking-cocksucker/128800/28 "2002-09-20T21:55:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mouthbreather \* > \*\* > Not just you, [Bart & Lisa noticed it too](http://www.snpp.com/episodes/7F21.html) > > [qoute] > Bart: Well, you know what I think? I think Casper is the ghost of > Richie Rich. [shows comics of Casper and Richie Rich] > Lisa: Hey, they do look alike! > [/qoute] > > 😛 \*\* Matt Groening himself believes this, so that’s probably why Bart and Lisa do, too. “Maybe he realized how hollow the pursuit of money is and took his own life.” I think Richie is referred to as “The Poor Little Rich Boy” because even though he has money, he has no friends. That isn’t true, though. Richie has friends! Maybe he has nothing to do with his money anymore, after having bought everything shaped like a dollar sign in the world. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richie-rich-is-a-fucking-cocksucker/128800/29 "2002-09-20T22:22:43Z")
And 'member kids, using copy and paste with your tags is a good way to make it look like you don’t know how to spell a 5 letter word two times. And that’s one to grow on. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richie-rich-is-a-fucking-cocksucker/128800/30 "2002-09-20T23:10:09Z")
I watched an interview with Groening many years ago where he was describing a story he wrote as a kid in school. It was something about Caspar the friendly boy and how he got to be a ghost. I don’t think he got a good grade on it. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richie-rich-is-a-fucking-cocksucker/128800/31 "2002-09-20T23:11:47Z")
Or Casper even. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richie-rich-is-a-fucking-cocksucker/128800/32 "2002-09-20T23:20:25Z")
Not to sound like a commie or anything, but isn’t it kind of weird to make a comic book character who’s interesting soley because he is rich? Talk about indoctrination to greed… ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2002, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richie-rich-is-a-fucking-cocksucker/128800/33 "2002-09-21T00:57:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > \*\*What’s even STUPIDER is that that stupid dog was a DOLLARMATION. > > Anyone else remember the episode where Richie and Cadbury went up against a whole islandful of Communists? All the men had five o’clock shadow. \*\* You beat me to it, Ike. A dollarmation dollar indeed was. I missed the communist island, but I sure liked evil light-bulb-headed villain Dr. NR-Gee. And the time Richie accidentally invented the Harrier aircraft. Jesus, I can’t believe I remember all this. ---
**Author:** ![Spudo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Spudo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spudo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2002, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richie-rich-is-a-fucking-cocksucker/128800/34 "2002-09-21T01:09:04Z")
Bart: Well, you know what I think? I think Casper is the ghost of Richie Rich. [shows comics of Casper and Richie Rich] Lisa: Hey, they do look alike! Bart: Wonder how Richie died. Lisa: Perhaps he realized how hollow the pursuit of money really is and took his own life. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2002, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richie-rich-is-a-fucking-cocksucker/128800/35 "2002-09-21T01:35:12Z")
The Commies challenged him to a series of Olympic-style feats of physical prowess, and cheated a lot. And Richie bested them all. Damn, I didn’t see THAT coming. And yeah, what ABOUT that Little Lotta? _I_ tried becoming morbidly obese in order to gain Super-Strength, but it didn’t work! ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2002, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richie-rich-is-a-fucking-cocksucker/128800/36 "2002-09-21T01:35:14Z")
So then do Richie/Casper eventually go to Hell for their sins and become **Hot Stuff**? Speaking of which… _Hot Stuff_??? Dude get over yourself. You wear a freaking diaper. ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2002, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richie-rich-is-a-fucking-cocksucker/128800/37 "2002-09-21T02:17:00Z")
## quote: ## Richie Rich is a fucking cocksucker So… that’s how the little tyke got all his money, eh? ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2002, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richie-rich-is-a-fucking-cocksucker/128800/38 "2002-09-21T02:26:42Z")
I can’t believe Richie Rich had the audacity to perjure himself in court before the assembled lords, testifying falsely that he heard his would-be patron, Sir Thomas More, speak against the king’s marriage to Anne Boleyn. Shameful! (Alnd I thought John Hurt played him well in the movie.) ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2002, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richie-rich-is-a-fucking-cocksucker/128800/39 "2002-09-21T04:54:00Z")
Anyone here catch the Richie Rich spoof in National Lampoon back in the late 80s/early 90s? Richie ends up on trial for something or other, and the prosecution brings in some of his ‘friends’ as character witnesses/assassins. “He paid me $10,000 to hold his ‘Little Richard’ while he was in the bathroom.” “He ordered his chauffer to back up and run over the bum he hit a second time, to make sure the guy wouldn’t squeal.” IIRC, he spends a night in the hoosegow before his trial, and indeed he did prove the thread title to be true. Might still have that one waaaay in the back of a closet someplace. Dark, yet amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2002, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richie-rich-is-a-fucking-cocksucker/128800/40 "2002-09-21T14:34:57Z")
> [@](#): > > ## \*Originally posted by Sofa King \* \*\*quote: > > ## Richie Rich is a fucking cocksucker > > So… that’s how the little tyke got all his money, eh? \*\* :eek: Dammit Sofa, there goes my [coffee](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=136064). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richie-rich-is-a-fucking-cocksucker/128800.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richie-rich-is-a-fucking-cocksucker/128800.md?page=3)